I’ve hit a little bit of a lull—the writing bug has stopped biting so incessantly.
When that happens, I find it’s usually best to return to the things you really love and hope that sparks things back up a bit. For me, that means the San Francisco Giants. Luckily for me, it’s a subject that fits nicely into the inaugural week of the Major League Baseball season.
It can’t be about the guys on the field. I’ve written about the Gents four or five times before the fellas saw/threw the first pitch, and nothing monumental has surfaced in the two games since then.
The pitching is off to a slow start and the bats opened with a bang, but then retreated into their shells behind Randy Johnson on Wednesday. So what? It’s two flippin’ games.
That’s not nearly enough of a sample to make even mild conclusions about how the other 160 will pan out. However, the start of the season has revealed something from which a firm conclusion can be drawn.
Those of you who have DirecTV may already be aware of this, but subscribers to that particular provider are enjoying a free preview of the MLB Extra Innings package. Since the package allows you to see every single game played from local broadcasters, I’m getting my first extensive look/hear at other teams’ local flavors behind the mic.
And it’s quickly becoming clear that we (San Francisco Giants fans) are incredibly lucky to have Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper.
There may be no more subjective topic than play-by-play and color commentary preferences. Furthermore, I won’t pretend to have heard all 30 sets enough to really stake my reputation on the absolute superiority of Kruk and Kuip.
Shoot, I won’t even pretend to have heard all 30 sets…period.
However, I’ve heard enough over the last several days to be willing to go out on a limb and say SF’s primary tandem is at least in the top five. I wouldn’t be shocked if they roosted atop the entire heap.
Some of their colleagues are mind-numbingly boring. Others seem to lack even a basic understanding of baseball…or at least the ability to communicate it. Others feel the need to constantly interject war stories from their glory days into the conversation.
